HE WILL DO BETTER

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And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. Ex 34:6
During my primary school days, I do fail in class and in the report card below it you’ll read ‘he will do better if he concentrates on his studies’. This hope in my teachers was the reason I wasn’t expelled from school for academic incompetence. Though some level of failure might lead to demotion but not expulsion but I was promoted on trial, in my last 2 years in school I rose up to be the best performing child representing and wining few trophies for my primary school.
When you see my primary 1 to 4 results you’ll think that I don’t have any business coming to school but from my primary 5 and 6 I became the best not just from my school but from the whole of Ilorin west, till 2005 when I visited my primary school last, my picture had not been replaced in the headmistress’ office wall.
Just like my teacher then believed and was ready to suffer enduring my failures and academic incompetence so is God willing and ready to forgive, endure our spiritual failures.
Peter lied and denied Christ three times and yet was forgiven, he abandoned his calling and went back to fishing, the very life Christ called him out of taking with him some disciples of Christ yet God endured his mistakes and early failures and didn’t because of that take away from him the leadership of the early church.
God is merciful as a nature and He is willing to endure long for our mistakes no matter how many times we make such mistakes. Christ told Peter to forgive 70 times 7 times, this shows us how many times God is willing to forgive us when we sin.
You can’t exhaust the mercy of God over your life, when you sin, open your mouth and ask for forgiveness and when you sin again and again; ask for forgiveness again and again, you can’t exhaust the mercy of God over your life.
Never let the devil tell you that you can’t be forgiven again, when you fail the Lord, open your mouth and ask for mercy and when you’ve asked for mercy, trust God that He had shown mercy to you because He is always faithful to forgive all those who had sinned against Him no matter how times they have to come a day.
When you sin, always remember that God is merciful by nature and He still believes that though you are failing grossly today, today you’ll not only stand strong for Him but you’ll make many stand-strong for Him.
God bless you
God bless you.
Pastor Promise Ikpe
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